Easel for flexible posters



April 15, 1947. J. WATSON EASEL FOR FLEXIBLE POSTERS Filed Jan. 12, 1945 INVENTOR. (/Z/m 4447-50 Patented Apr. 15, 1947 EASEL FOR FLEXIBLE POSTERS John Watson, Belleville, N. J assignor to Sweeney Lithograph Company, Inc., Belleville, N. J., a corporation of New York Application .Eanuary 12, 1945, Serial No. 572,521

1 Claim. 1

The invention herein disclosed relates to flexible posters of the easel type.

special objects of the invention are to provide a flexible poster having a form of sustaining easel incorporated therewith and which will be of inexpensive construction, adapted to be rolled with the poster to occupy small space, and which can be easily assembled or set up to support the poster in firm, taut condition.

Further special objects are to provide an easel type poster made up of but few small pieces of wood or other readily available material and containing but a minimum amount of metal.

Other desirable objects and the novel features by which all purposes of the invention are attained are set forth or will appear in the course of the following specification.

The drawing accompanying and forming part of the specification illustrates a present preferred commercial embodiment of the invention, but structure may be modified and changed all within the true spirit and scope of the invention, as will appear from the following specification and claim disclosing and defining the invention.

Fig. 1 in the drawing is a side elevation of the poster; and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged brokenand part sectional view of the same.

In the several views a flexible roll-up form of poster is indicated at 5, having top and bottom edge strips 6, I.

These edge strips are shown as having rearwardly facing sockets 8, 9, to receive the reduced end portions H), II of a flexible supporting rod I2 and a relatively rigid base rod I3. The latter is shown as having a small diameter transverse opening I4 therethrough near the rearward end of the same.

I5 designates a relatively rigid supporting rod. Into the lower end of this rod a metallic pin or stud I6 is driven, with the end left projecting a distance approximating the diameter of the base rod. This metallic pin may simply be a nail driven in the lower end of the supporting rod, of a size such that the projecting portion will be rigid or substantially so, so that when engaged in the opening I4 it will sustain the rod I5 in an upright position.

The nail or stud I6 preferably is enough smaller than the opening I4 to be readily engaged in or be removed from the same, and this looseness permits the rod I5 to tilt forwardly toward the back of the poster more or less as indicated in the drawing.

The upper end of the rigid support rod I5 has a socket II therein to receive the reduced lower end I8 of the upper flexible support rod I2.

Assembled as indicated, the base rod I3 and lower support rod I5 form two adjustably but relatively rigidly connected members, rigidly supporting the upper flexible rod I2, so that the latter may act as a bowed spring stretching and yieldingly sustaining the flexible poster.

The rigid rods l3 and I5 may be of the same diameter stock and relatively short in length as compared with the flexible rod I 2. This provides desired rigidity in the base portion of the structure and a maximum of resiliency for yieldingly supporting the poster. The looseness of the pin 56 in the upright opening I 4 enables a certain amount of adjustment of the angularity of the upright rod over the base rod, and this adjustment may be utilized to increase or reduce the tension applied by the upper yielding length of rod.

The three rods may be made from lengths of wooden dowels. The metallic pin may be roughened substantially as indicated so as to grip and more or less interlock in the hole in the base rod. The parts are easily put together or taken I apart and are small in size so that they may be its forward end in the socket in the bottom strip and having a substantially vertically disposed small diameter opening through the opposite rearward end portion of the same, an upright, rigid support rod having a projecting small diameter metal stud in the lower end of the same smaller in diameter and loosely and adjustably entered in said substantially vertically disposed opening and having a socket in the upper end of the same and a smaller size yielding spring rod seated at its lower end in said socket in the upper end of said support rod and bent forwardly at its upper end into engagement in the socket in the top edge strip.

JOHN WATSON.

7 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the Holt Jan, 13, 1931 

